The Law Corner has guided Wake County families through separation and divorce since 2004. Founding attorney Brian S. Demidovich is BV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and works as a certified family financial mediator.
After 15 years litigating domestic cases, he now devotes his practice to mediation and collaborative law. The firm lays out four routes to a separation: collaborative, mediated, negotiated, or litigated.
Clients pick the path that fits their budget and temperament. Attorney Holly M. King rounds out the legal team. The office serves Raleigh, Durham, and Johnston County residents, along with Cary, Apex, Morrisville, and Garner.
Attorney Jonathan Breeden grew up in a tough environment and now represents families facing their own. He founded Breeden Law Office in 2000 and has practiced family law for more than 25 years.
The firm keeps five offices, in Cary, Garner, Angier, Smithfield, and Wake Forest, and covers Wake, Johnston, and Harnett counties. Breeden is a regular in Johnston and Harnett district courts, which matters once a case turns contested.
Niche work includes military divorce, LGBTQ adoption, and matters involving business owners. Breeden also wrote a free ebook that walks North Carolinians through the divorce process step by step.
Large marital estates anchor the practice at Marshall & Taylor PLLC. Jeffrey E. Marshall is a Board Certified Specialist in family law, a credential the North Carolina State Bar grants sparingly.
The firm handles contested and collaborative cases, plus divorce arbitration, an option many practices skip. Premarital agreements and support enforcement round out the docket.
These Raleigh divorce attorneys also staff a second office in Wilmington, and their intake covers 13 counties from Wake to New Hanover. Confidential consultations are available at either location.
Flat-fee pricing on uncontested divorce sets this Cary practice apart from hourly-billing competitors. James T. Brooks holds an AV Preeminent peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has made Business North Carolina's Legal Elite list multiple years.
He handles nothing but separation, divorce, and related family matters. The office sits near Kildaire Farm Road and Cary Parkway, an easy drive from Raleigh, Apex, Garner, and Holly Springs.
From an office on Fayetteville Street downtown, New Direction Family Law fields a seven-attorney team with nearly 100 years of combined experience.
The practice takes on complex and business-owner cases, along with alienation of affection and criminal conversation claims, two torts still alive in North Carolina. Parenting coordinators are available for high-conflict families.
The team also produces the Ex-It Strategy podcast for people weighing their options, and serves Wake, Durham, and Johnston counties.
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Research Triangle Park employees with stock options, RSUs, and deferred compensation need a lawyer who can read a pay package. Partner J. Patrick Williams came to law from computer engineering and finance.
His colleagues bring their own credentials. Sydney Batch and Shannon Poore are Board Certified Child Welfare Law Specialists, and Batch also serves as a North Carolina state senator. The four partners count more than 70 years of combined practice.
The Centerview Drive office sits minutes from the Wake County Justice Center. A partner, associate, and paralegal are assigned to every case from day one.
Charles R. Ullman & Associates practices family law and nothing else, a focus the office has kept for more than 25 years. Ullman is certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a Specialist in Family Law.
The downtown location on Bloodworth Street offers free on-site parking, a small thing that matters on a court day. The website hosts free alimony and child support calculators for people trying to run numbers before they call.
Clients come from Raleigh, Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, and the rest of Wake County.
Founder Glenn S. Doyle is certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission as a Family Financial Mediator. That fits the caseload at Doyle Law Group, P.A., which leans toward high-net-worth matters and tech-sector clients holding equity compensation.
Attorneys here bring 28-plus years of combined experience and publish plainly written guides on executive pay in a marital estate. Fees and payment plans are posted openly on the site, which is unusual in this field.
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Hundreds of Wake County clients have been represented here since 2010. Founding attorney Heather W. Forshey is a board-certified family law specialist and a certified family financial mediator, and Super Lawyers listed her every year from 2021 through 2024.
The six-attorney team covers fathers' rights, asset protection, and cases involving business owners, plus disputes over trusts and inheritances.
Few Triangle practices have served LGBTQ+ families as long as Haas & Associates, P.A., which has worked with this community for over two decades. Assisted reproduction law is a second focus, covering IVF and surrogacy agreements.
Angela L. Haas leads a four-attorney office that also handles adoption, property distribution, and probate. Two-parent, single-parent, foster, and multi-generational families all fall within the practice.
An accounting background is Carrie Tortora's edge. She values and divides business interests and works out support figures herself, rather than farming the math out.
Tortora is certified as a family law specialist by the North Carolina State Bar and has been named to Super Lawyers. Clients work with her directly at every stage, starting with a first meeting that runs 60 to 90 minutes.
Rebecca Poole built her Apex practice around staying out of court. Collaborative divorce, mediation, and negotiation are the main tools, with litigation reserved for cases that need it.
She holds the State Bar's family law specialist certification and is a certified parenting coordinator. Poole covers Wake, Chatham, Orange, and Durham counties, and can prepare estate planning documents once a case closes.
Thirty years in local courtrooms gives Kevin Hopper a read on how area judges rule. He has represented clients across Wake, Johnston, Durham, Franklin, and Orange counties since 1994.
Hopper holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He handles restraining orders and safety planning alongside standard family law work, and prefers negotiation where it will hold.
A short walk from the Wake County Courthouse, Graber Law Firm keeps three attorneys on staff: Erin Mulligan Graber, Kat McDonald, and Currie Carter.
Domestic violence cases are a core focus, along with separation agreements and grandparent rights. The office answers consultation requests within one business day.
Matthew Stauff and Jordan Gross have run this Six Forks Road practice since 2014, and Super Lawyers has recognized both attorneys.
Beyond representing clients, the two serve as mediators and parenting coordinators in other families' cases. Adoption, parental rights, and civil no-contact orders are also on the list.
Appellate work sets Sandlin Family Law Group apart from firms that stop at the trial court. Attorney Susan Goetcheus practices here alongside founder Deborah Sandlin and two other lawyers.
The group has more than 25 years serving Raleigh, Durham, and the wider Triangle, covering separation agreements, alimony, custody, and adoptions.
For 32 years Rik Lovett has resolved domestic cases in Raleigh by negotiation, arbitration, or trial. He and associate Bailey Davis take on alienation of affections and criminal conversation claims.
The firm also performs business valuations, which matters when a closely held company is part of the marital estate.
Founded in 1996, The Mueller Law Firm, P.A. is a boutique family law office on Harps Mill Road in north Raleigh. Len C. Mueller leads a small team of paralegals and a law clerk.
Work ranges from a straightforward consultation to complex litigation, covering equitable distribution, parental relocation, and grandparent rights.
Daphne Edwards runs a female-led boutique aimed at high-net-worth cases and complex custody. Martindale-Hubbell rates her AV Preeminent, and Super Lawyers has recognized her work.
She takes clients across Raleigh, Cary, and Durham, and handles each case personally rather than passing it to an associate.
John Hill Parker started this practice in 1982, after presiding over family cases as a district court judge. Kimberly Bryan joined him in 1996.
The roster now runs to ten lawyers with over a century of combined experience. Military divorce is a stated focus, and five offices stretch from Raleigh to Morehead City.
Richard Gantt came to family law from tax, finance, and investment banking, and is board certified by the North Carolina State Bar. One attorney on his six-lawyer team spent 15 years as a family court judge.
The firm serves Spanish-speaking clients and keeps offices in Raleigh, Apex, Cary, Durham, and Sanford. High-asset cases and fathers' rights are particular strengths.